Exploring Swedish International Adoption Desire Transracial Bodies and Nation-Building in the ‘Goodest’ Country /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wyver, Richey (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	XIII, 159 p. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:	1st ed. 2023.
Subjects:	Race. Emigration and immigration > Social aspects. Emigration and immigration. Family policy. Sociology. Social groups. Human body > Social aspects. Race and Ethnicity Studies. Sociology of Migration. Human Migration. Children, Youth and Family Policy. Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. Sociology of the Body.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38801-9
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Exploring Swedish Adoption Desire
2. Race, Colonialism, Eugenics, and International Adoption in Sweden
3. From Flat-Packed Furniture to Fascism: Transracial Adoptees in Myths of Swedish Goodness
4. Eating the [M]Other: Consumption Fantasies in Swedish Adoption Narratives
5. “Too Brown to be Swedish, Too Swedish to be Anything Else”: Mimicry and Menace in Swedish Adoption Narratives
6. Representation and Resistance: Challenging Swedish Adoption Desire
7. Conclusion.

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